Daniel 1:4

Modern English Version

youths in whom was no blemish, who were handsome and skillful in every branch of wisdom and gifted with understanding and discerning knowledge, and such as had ability in them to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

Cross References

Genesis 41:46

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

2 Samuel 14:25

In all of Israel, there was no man as handsome as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, there was not a blemish on him.

Proverbs 22:29

Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives the wise person more strength than ten rulers who are in the city.

Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in Hebrew in the ears of the people who are on the wall.”

Jeremiah 5:15

Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor do you understand what they say.

Daniel 2:10

The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can tell the king’s matter, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician or astrologer or Chaldean.

Daniel 2:2

Then the king gave the command to call the magicians and the astrologers and the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

Daniel 3:8

Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near and accused the Jews.

Daniel 4:7

Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers, and I told the dream before them, but they did not make known to me its interpretation.

Daniel 5:11

There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And, in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, your father the king, made him master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

Daniel 5:7

The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever shall read this writing and show me its interpretation shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 9:1

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

Zechariah 2:4

and said to him, “Run, say to this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and animals in her.

Acts 7:20

“At that time Moses was born, and was fair in the sight of God. And he was reared for three months in his father’s house.

Acts 7:22

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in words and in deeds.

Ephesians 5:27

and that He might present to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Judges 8:18

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” They said, “They were like you. Each one looked like the son of a king.”